numbers are believed to be considerable; the leaders work in secret and are blindly obeyed by their youthful followers.  The method they favour at present is political assassination; the method of Mazzini in his worst moods.  Already they have a long score of murders or attempted murders to their account.  There were two attempts to blow up Sir Andrew Fraser’s train and one, of the type with which we are now unhappily familiar, to shoot him on a public occasion.  Two attempts were made to murder Mr. Kingsford, one of which caused the death of two English ladies.  Inspector Nanda Lal Banerji, Babu Ashutosh Biswas, the Public Prosecutor at Alipore, Sir William Curzon-Wyllie, Mr. Jackson, and only the other day Deputy Supdt.  Shams-ul-Alum have been shot in the most deliberate and cold-blooded fashion.  Of three informers two have been killed, and on the third vengeance has been taken by the murder of his brother in the sight of his mother and sisters.  Mr. Allen, the magistrate of Dacca, was shot through the lungs and narrowly escaped with his life.  Two picric acid bombs were thrown at His Excellency the Viceroy at Ahmedabad, and only failed to explode by reason of their faulty construction.  Not long afterwards an attempt was made with a bomb on the Deputy Commissioner of Umballa.

These things are the natural and necessary consequence of the teachings of certain journals.  They have prepared the soil in which anarchy flourishes; they have sown the seed and they are answerable for the crop.  This is no mere general statement; the chain of causation is clear.  Not only does the campaign of violence date from the change in the tone of the Press, but specific outbursts of incitement have been followed by specific outrages.

And now, Sir, I appeal to the Council in the name of all objects that patriotic Indians have at heart to give their cordial approval to this Bill.  It is called for in the interests of the State, of our officers both Indian and European, and most of all of the rising generation of young men.  In this matter, indeed, the interests of the State and the interests of the people are one and the same.  If it is good for India that British rule should continue, it is equally essential that the relations between Government and the educated community should be cordial and intimate, and that cannot long be the case if the organs of that community lay themselves out to embitter those relations in every sort of way and to create a permanent atmosphere of latent and often open hostility.  In the long run people will believe what they are told, if they are told it often enough, and if they hear nothing on the other side.  There is plenty of work in India waiting to be done, but it will be done, if the energies of the educated classes are wasted in incessant abuse and suspicion of Government.  As regards the officers of Government the case is clear.  At all costs they must be protected from intimidation and worse.  And it is our Indian